Abaché and Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914.
Both Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, were originally from present-day Benin, where they were abducted and transported across the Middle Passage on the slave ship Clotilda, bringing them to Mobile, Alabama, in 1860. After emancipation, they became founders of Africatown, a community built by many of the Clotilda survivors.
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Photographer, U. (2025, September 02). Abaché and Kossola, c. 1914: Two Survivors of Clotilda and Founders of Africatown. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20909/abache-and-kossola-c-1914/
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